The writing is only the second confirmed inscription whose attribution connects to Muhammad. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

- For the Arabic inscriptions, titles are provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publication, "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in ...

The identification of an eleventh century Islamic astrolabe bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions makes it one of the oldest examples ever discovered and one of only a handful known in the world ...

Inscriptions serve as a missing link to the past, offering many historical clues otherwise unavailable elsewhere.

Cambridge University historian Federica Gigante is an expert on Islamic astrolabes. So naturally she was intrigued when the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy, uploaded an image of ...